If you don’t know what the Bechdel Test is, these films are great examples of either passing or failing it. When it comes to representation in film and other fictional mediums, Hollywood ...

Bechdel expressed this phenomenon of women being overshadowed by their male counterparts and created the Bechdel Test when she drew a comic that depicted characters chatting about how they would only ...

The Bechdel test was created by cartoonist Alison Bechdel and is used to measure female representation in movies based on the following three criteria: the movie has to have at least two (named ...

Alison Bechdel invented the test that measures gender inequality in films more than 30 years ago. As a musical based on one of her most beloved graphic novels hits London, she tells Stylist.co.uk ...

Janelle Monae, Rachel McAdams and Lupita Nyong'o all starred in films - Moonlight, Spotlight and 12 Years a Slave - that failed the Bechdel Test Hollywood is failing women when it comes to ...

Three films by Indian writer-directors travelled far and wide in 2024. They share one standout quality: Camaraderie among ...

They also found films which passed the Bechdel test, which looks at whether women are given roles other than those revolving around romantic liaisons with men, outperformed those that failed it.

It resembles but was not inspired by the Bechdel test, a measure of women's representation in fiction. The Finkbeiner test has been linked to affirmative action, because writing can cause readers to ...